The addresses of the buildings must be established according to the rules described by the legislation, avoiding duplication and respecting the logical order of numbering. The numbering of addresses and indicators of street names must be visible and exclude grammatical errors. These are some of the basic principles of the new Address System Guide, with which the cadastral engineers and the representatives of the local public administrations from the northern, central and southern regions of the Republic of Moldova got acquainted.
The manual is an additional document to the Law on the address system and the Regulation on the assignment, change of the name of the traffic arteries and/or circulation areas and numbering of the addressable objects.
The new guide was presented to the participants during three trainings organized in Chisinau, Balti and Cahul from October 8 to October 10, 2019. The cadastral specialists, as well as the LPA representatives, were satisfied with the accessibility and clearness of the information in the guide. Moreover, in the document, they found answers to several questions or confusing situations they had faced up to now.
Oxana Guțu, cadastral engineer, Frunze Town Hall, Ocnita district: “Finally, many confusing situations that I encountered became clear to me. For example, how to act in the case of a new apartment building, how to correctly assign an address, which are the rules that we must follow. So far, we have not known them and it is better to have a set of established rules than to waste time and energy to correct things post factum.”
Serghei Mutu, cadastral engineer, Ungheni Town Hall: “The guide is very useful, I will study it carefully and, depending on the situation, I will try to apply it in practice. In general, the most difficult thing is to make people understand the rules and new legislative changes. Therefore, this guide will provide us with important assistance in the process of modernizing the address system in our country.”
“Up to now specialists in the Republic of Moldova have relied more on recommendations than on rules. Accordingly, a law in this respect was adopted, and than the regulation, and today we have this guide, which establishes strict rules for assigning addresses. For example, an address is assigned not to the whole building, but to its entrances. Thus, if a building has entrances from two different streets, then addresses will be assigned according to the streets on which they are located,” says Andrei Iacovlev, member of the team for elaboration of the Law, Regulation and Guide for the Address System.
Cornelia Soimu, responsible for the administration of the Register of Addresses within the Cadastre Department of the Public Services Agency, noted: “The new guide was developed based on the problems we have observed, mistakes that are usually made and, in this way, we hope to have a more efficient and correct address assignment process. It is a useful document with many images and examples, easy to understand. From now on, nobody will act as he/she thinks, but we all will follow the same rules, and the emergency or taxi services will find an address much easier, regardless the geographical region of the country.”
The guide can be used both in the current system of the “State Register of Administrative-Territorial Units and Addresses” and in the new one, which is in the process of being finalized.
The future unique automated information system, which will include, briefly, the Register of addresses, is intended to accumulate in one place, administer and publish information on the location and names of traffic arteries throughout the country and correct addresses of absolutely all real estate. The system will become the single public source of truthful information about all the addresses registered in the Republic of Moldova, and its data will be used by various state services and institutions, such as:
• Unique service for emergency calls 112
• Postal service
• Courts
• Local and central public authorities
• Taxi services
and also for updating address data for all information systems, including:
• The State Register of Population
• The Real Estate Register
• The State Register of Voters
So far, the Public Services Agency has registered over one and a half million addresses, and by 2023 another 500 thousand addresses are to be registered, among them:
• 250 000 individual houses
• 75 000 garden-plots
• 100 000 objects of public property
• 70 000 isolated rooms
If you want to find a correct address, please go to http://www.asp.gov.md/, press the Real Estate button, choose e-Cadastre and search in the Data from the State Register of administrative-territorial units and addresses.
More information about the new Register of addresses can be found here: https://bit.ly/2Vwb1vk, and the Guide can be downloaded here: https://bit.ly/2VvcDWg
The Address System Guide was developed within the project “Enhancing democracy in Moldova through inclusive and transparent elections”, implemented by UNDP Moldova and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the British Embassy in Chisinau via the Good Governance Fund and the Embassy of the Netherlands via the Matra Program.
